Malta’s Artists Finally Get Pay Cheques: 42 Creatives Hired Full-Time in National Culture First
For the first time in Malta’s 5,000-year artistic story, painters, dancers, actors and musicians can wake up, clock-in and pay rent without waiting tables or scanning boarding passes. After decades of precarious project contracts, the national arts companies – Teatru Manoel, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, ŻfinMalta and the national dance school – have quietly converted 42…